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What your child did/said that made you smile today.

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  • Moderators Posts: 3,554 ✭✭✭Wise Old Elf


    ^^^
    Me too, first time!
    8 month old daughter had to goto hospital yesterday, high fever and not taking fluids.. kept her in last night (and tonight). Was in most of the day, wife stayed in hospital last night, I stayed with 4 year old at home. Not too serious by comparison to others in there.

    Anyway, she made me smile when she perked up, started babbling, smiling and chatting. Then she tried to eat her IV line, made me laugh.


  • Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭ladypip


    Little one was composing songs on request last night.
    "Tu veux une chanson sur l'esprit ou sur l'espoir?" (do you want a song about spriit or hope?)
    Pleasantly surprised by both the alliteration and the soft, philosophical nature of the options, I went with the former.

    "There was a load of spirits and they opened their mouths and they had bombs in their mouths and their bums were full of fireworks and if you put your hand in there it would get blown off and you'd probably be dead for the rest of your life."

    It scanned/rhymed a little better in the original, mind.

    Hands down funniest thing I have ever read!


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    Son off school all week with earache ,he said to me yesterday there was farting in his ear.Turns out his abcess had burst.Thought what a great description of it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,585 ✭✭✭lynski


    I am quite careful with my use of language around the children, but they do pick it up, especially our little daughter. So in the car the other day and the 4yr old says, quite distinctly and emphatically, 'oh bugger it', i said what darling, she says ' oh bugger it mommy i forget to remind daddy to bring his thingy to work like he asked me' she has said worse, but not so meaningfully, I guess I need to be more careful, or use some less specific exclamations.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    lynski wrote: »
    I am quite careful with my use of language around the children, but they do pick it up, especially our little daughter. So in the car the other day and the 4yr old says, quite distinctly and emphatically, 'oh bugger it', i said what darling, she says ' oh bugger it mommy i forget to remind daddy to bring his thingy to work like he asked me' she has said worse, but not so meaningfully, I guess I need to be more careful, or use some less specific exclamations.

    What's wrong with 'bugger it' in that context? She could have used erm...more...colourful language!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    My six year old came racing into me at 3:30am - "Mammy, mammy, it's snowing, it's so exciting, it's just like Christmas without the decorations".


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,576 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    She seems to have found her inner Alanis. While playing their favourite game of 'insults' she came out with these (translated and reordered)
    You're a useless pancake mix
    You're a flower no-one wants to pick
    You're an apple no-one wants to eat
    You're a book that no-one wants to read


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭goat2


    my 22 yr old, came home cooked a meal for herself, let all the pots pans and delph scattered around countertop and sink,
    never dresses her bed,
    all her clothes are on the floor, even though i did provide wardrobe and hangers,
    i am falling over her shoes every monday morning,
    when i give out, she goes out door saying she is in a hurry someplace,

    just a little glimpse into the future for all you with those 20 yrs younger than her


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    goat2 wrote: »
    my 22 yr old, came home cooked a meal for herself, let all the pots pans and delph scattered around countertop and sink,
    never dresses her bed,
    all her clothes are on the floor, even though i did provide wardrobe and hangers,
    i am falling over her shoes every monday morning,
    when i give out, she goes out door saying she is in a hurry someplace,

    just a little glimpse into the future for all you with those 20 yrs younger than her
    Next time she goes somewhere in a hurry, change the locks........problem solved! :pac:


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    He's discovered the wonders of toilet humour.

    "Goosey goosey gander, whither shall I wander,
    Upstairs, downstairs, in my lady's chamber,
    There I met an old man, who would not say his prayers,
    So I took him by the left leg,
    and POO-POOed down the stairs!"

    Then he collapsed laughing at his own wit.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 976 ✭✭✭Gandhi


    Hadn't checked this thread in ages. Forgot how funny it was.

    A few weeks back I was playing with my two when the 4-year-old went to the bathroom. A few minutes after he came back it dawned on me that I had noticed earlier we were out of toilet paper in that bathroom.

    "Did you go poopies?"
    "Yes"
    "Did you wipe your behind?"
    "No, there was no toilet paper"
    "I'll get some toilet paper and we'll wipe it now. Otherwise it will get all itchy and sore."
    "No. I'm fine. It stopped itching now that my underpants is stuck to it."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,549 ✭✭✭Noffles


    My 17 / 18 year old decided he's quitting school, and also said that he's sick of being there as there are so many ***** there...

    It's all such fun isn't it.......

    :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 758 ✭✭✭bubbaloo


    Gandhi wrote: »
    Hadn't checked this thread in ages. Forgot how funny it was.

    A few weeks back I was playing with my two when the 4-year-old went to the bathroom. A few minutes after he came back it dawned on me that I had noticed earlier we were out of toilet paper in that bathroom.

    "Did you go poopies?"
    "Yes"
    "Did you wipe your behind?"
    "No, there was no toilet paper"
    "I'll get some toilet paper and we'll wipe it now. Otherwise it will get all itchy and sore."
    "No. I'm fine. It stopped itching now that my underpants is stuck to it."

    This - every day of my life - EVERY DAY!!!! My washing machine is just full of pooey pants!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,339 ✭✭✭How Strange


    I always tell my 2 yr old son that he's the best boy in the whole wide world. This morning I was getting him dressed for crèche and he told me I was the best mammy in the whole wide world. My heart melted!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,321 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    I dropped something yesterday and said "f**king hell" under my breath, not realising my 3yr old was behind me.

    He was playing and I watched to see if he reacted or heard me. Nothing.

    Imagine my surprise when about 2hrs later he began saying "f**king hell" repeatedly out of the blue!!

    Hopefully he will forget it soon! Otherwise I will have a bit of explaining to do to his grannys.

    But I did find myself laughing to myself after I got over the initial shock.


  • Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭ladypip


    I aksed my five year old what he was giving up for Lent.
    Him: Dinner.
    Me: Nice try
    Him: Baths?
    Me: Not happening buddy.
    Him: Ok ok Im going to give up the bold corner
    Me: You cant give that up sweetie thats a punishment when you are naughty.
    Him: Mammy maybe YOU should give up deciding things for other people.
    Hahhaha

    He cracks me up


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    ladypip wrote: »
    I aksed my five year old what he was giving up for Lent.
    Him: Dinner.
    Me: Nice try
    Him: Baths?
    Me: Not happening buddy.
    Him: Ok ok Im going to give up the bold corner
    Me: You cant give that up sweetie thats a punishment when you are naughty.
    Him: Mammy maybe YOU should give up deciding things for other people.
    Hahhaha

    He cracks me up
    He sounds gas:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,321 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    ... and too clever for his own good. Worth a watching that one!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,585 ✭✭✭lynski


    What's wrong with 'bugger it' in that context? She could have used erm...more...colourful language!

    oh she does, it was more the emphatic nature of it.
    her fav expression to get under my skin is 'pooy, fxxxing, stupid' it always makes me think of the exorcist as she is so cute and petite and pretty and the language is so bad.
    I am quite lucky though - i can blame Nana for the bad words as she is the only one who uses them regularly around the kids!:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,884 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    I'm always using the "fcuks sake" under my breath when the red mist is up.

    Looked in at the 2 eldest girls bedroom which was a mess. Said to them that they had 5 minutes to tidy it up.

    Youngest (3) looks in the door, looks at me and says "is that a fcuk sake room"

    I'm never swearing again...


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  • Moderators Posts: 3,554 ✭✭✭Wise Old Elf


    This is actually ages ago when my son was about 2 (he's 4 now), but talking about cursing around them, I do this most in the car. One christmas eve, I was "a bit stressed" in the car and made reference to a f***ing spanner. His reply was " daddy, what's a f***ing spanner". I didn't hear him, but wondered why my wife was in tears laughing and trying not to, only made worse by an insistent "tell me" from him.


  • Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭ladypip


    dubstarr wrote: »
    He sounds gas:D

    He is Hilarious check my other posts on here. He always has me cracking up with laughter :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,585 ✭✭✭lynski


    words are coming very slowly to ds2, who is 2 next week, but he got one pretty fast on sat. We very very rarely buy soft drinks but on sat we got some cola. Gave the little man a taste as he wants everything his big sis and bro have. He held up the empty cup and said 'coke' and after we looked astounded at him 'mamma i wan coke' no bother after hearing the word for the first time once 3 minute previously.
    they will beat you everytime.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,234 ✭✭✭Mr Bloat


    My three year old loves insects, especially spiders. Whenever there is one in the house, she wants to collect it and cuddle it! Her older sister and brother hate them (as do most people) but she is the opposite.
    On Sunday morning, she was downstairs with the older two and my wife and I were having a well deserved lie-in. At around 9.30, she woke me up to tell me she had been "cuddling" a spider when it had run up her sleeve. She was distraught because she was worried the spider was lost! I had to laugh, if it was either of my other two kids, they would have been freaking out if a spider even looked at them, if one had gone inside their clothes they would have needed counselling! I found the spider and she wandered off again, delighted to have her friend back. :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,349 ✭✭✭nozzferrahhtoo


    "Daddy, say yes or I might cry a little bit..... and you will not like that!"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,585 ✭✭✭lynski


    "Daddy, say yes or I might cry a little bit..... and you will not like that!"

    you are so screwed ... start the yoga now with an emphasis on bending around tiny appendages ;-)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    Our three year old got her first Valentines card this morning, when she opened it she gasped

    "oh my goodness its sooooo cute"

    followed by

    "is it for me? really? is it? is it?"

    she was so excited and she hasn't let go of the card yet. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭hollster2


    :Dmy 3yr old came into me I gave him a kiss and he said hes not going to wipe off this one because it was valentines day !!:D


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    I was trying to suss out my three year old by asking him what he would think if I grew a new baby in my belly.

    He thought about it for a short while and answered, "I think you'd be enormous!"

    He then puffed out his cheeks and stuck out his tummy and collapsed laughing. Thanks, son.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 155 ✭✭ladysarah


    I really enjoy your stories. Any new ones please?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭Trotter


    2 Year old Little Miss' first night in her big girls bed. Tucked her in, very excited and ready for a big girl's sleep.

    2 mins later on the monitor I hear the noise of little toes on the floor. I quietly go up the stairs and open the door quickly and there she is.. caught out standing on the floor.

    I ask her.. Why are you out of bed?!

    She runs to the bed, grabs Teddy, fecks him on the floor and says..

    teddy fell out.. I have to get him..

    Couldnt hold in the laughing so tucked herself and Teddy in and off they both went to sleep.

    :p:D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 155 ✭✭ladysarah


    they are so cute. my friends 22 months has started to hit her head off the coffee table if she is corrected and then comes looking for a hug and says 'ah me'. the childminder ignores her so she stopped but mammy peta her so she countinued doing it until mammy got sense ))


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭hollster2


    Mr Bloat wrote: »
    My three year old loves insects, especially spiders. Whenever there is one in the house, she wants to collect it and cuddle it! Her older sister and brother hate them (as do most people) but she is the opposite.
    On Sunday morning, she was downstairs with the older two and my wife and I were having a well deserved lie-in. At around 9.30, she woke me up to tell me she had been "cuddling" a spider when it had run up her sleeve. She was distraught because she was worried the spider was lost! I had to laugh, if it was either of my other two kids, they would have been freaking out if a spider even looked at them, if one had gone inside their clothes they would have needed counselling! I found the spider and she wandered off again, delighted to have her friend back. :)


    one of my favorites so far wat a cutie!!!! :D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,585 ✭✭✭✭Lady Chatterton


    My six year old daughter's best friend, Molly spent a couple of days in hospital last week. Today was her first day back at school following her illness.

    My daughter: Mammy, Molly was in hospital last week but she is all better now. She was so brave the hospital gave her a 'sick-tificate'.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭hollster2


    This morning kids were playing with there dad so they were all a bit hyper and my 3yr old hes gas turns around to his dad and said will you ever calm down you loola just made them more excited laughing about it was great!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭Nanazolie


    I forgot to give my 5 years old her glasses for school, I told her: no worries, will bring them over during your break. What time do you have break at?
    her: we have one at snack time, one at yard time, and another one at home time


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭hollster2


    Gettting my son dressed ready for montessori this morning so i take out new boxers for him and he says ah thanks love for these the pants annoy me couldn't stop laughing


  • Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭ikol_


    put my little fella to bed the other night and went to go the bathroom about a hour later, i hear from his room hi daddy, hi daddy, i know from experience not to answer him, so a couple of seconds later he goes "Ah Bollix" nearly wet myself laughing..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,992 ✭✭✭dublinlady


    We had guests staying in the spare room over the weekend which is next door to my one yr olds room, about 3 am I heard weird noises so turned on the monitor - one of our guests was snoring quite loudly and her self was trying to copy him after each snore - it became a rhythmic constant snore off.. Thank god guests didn't hear her - literally breathing in loudly thru her nose and then following with blowing raspberry type noise... Not much sleep for us that night!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    dublinlady wrote: »
    We had guests staying in the spare room over the weekend which is next door to my one yr olds room, about 3 am I heard weird noises so turned on the monitor - one of our guests was snoring quite loudly and her self was trying to copy him after each snore - it became a rhythmic constant snore off.. Thank god guests didn't hear her - literally breathing in loudly thru her nose and then following with blowing raspberry type noise... Not much sleep for us that night!
    We both had colds two weeks ago, so lots of sniffling, sneezing and nose blowing. L was copying all the sounds! He even scrunches up his face the same way we do when we blow our nose. He also now copies strangers who snuffle! And of course, all followed by giggling. Aren't they little clowns at that age?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,992 ✭✭✭dublinlady


    We both had colds two weeks ago, so lots of sniffling, sneezing and nose blowing. L was copying all the sounds! He even scrunches up his face the same way we do when we blow our nose. He also now copies strangers who snuffle! And of course, all followed by giggling. Aren't they little clowns at that age?

    Haha A is exactly the same! You can't cough within a 100 meter radius or she's trying to beat u!!! All my family were asking me how she was coping so well at er birthday party as she was so sick.... I had to say I'm afraid it's not her that's sick - it's you!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    My brother was leaving to go to Australia for good, we were at the airport and she (3) was running around trying to hug and cheer up everyone who was crying,

    when she suddenly exclaimed "This is exhausting can everyone come to me for hugs" and stood there with her arms open.

    i had to run over and give her one after that. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,585 ✭✭✭lynski


    my ds2 is 2 today and the older 2 made such a fuss of him this morning kissing and hugging him and promising him cake - his fav thing in the whole world. he has no idea what is going on, but knows there is going to be cáca milis - 'cáca....., bagoo .. cáca' (bagoo is his brother)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    My little man is one today, and it made me smile while we were singing him happy birthday this morning and he did this wriggling-his-bum dance to it!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭Kettleson


    My youngest said teacher told them to get some "Rosemary" beads to say their prayers....I disappeared into the kitchen and doubled myself up with silent laughter.:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 8 miahar


    our daughter told us today that the thing she hears most is "i love you" and the thing she feels most is "hugs" and the thing she sees most is "the love in our family" - well im not joking ya - we nearly cried. Glad she knows that we love each other and love her and our little fella xx honest to god, its days like today that let us know we arent doing a bad job.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    Done the hardest thing ever yesterday evening, after a brilliant day with my 19 month old little boy, loads of playing on cars, with his tools etc i had to drop him home to his mammy. He tried to follow me back out of the house as i left shouting daddy and banging on the porch door :( 2 more weeks of work before i see his little smile again


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭hollster2


    today my 8 month old and i were having a snuggle in bed he put his two hands on my face said mama then gave me a slobbery kiss lol my heart melted nearly cried!!


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,576 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    The wee'un handed me a piece of paper with some gobbledegook scrawled on it. I looked closer and saw it was a note written in perfect mirror writing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,585 ✭✭✭lynski


    jaysus, how old is your wee one?
    my daughter made her daddy a birthday card completely unprompted by me. nice.


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